The Tit for Tat showing located approximately 17 kilometres north of Fort Steele is regionally underlain by predominantly Creston Formation rocks of Precambrian age.

In the property area, green, purple, and white argillaceous quartzites of the Creston Formation occur. Vein material consists of creamy-white, weakly fractured quartz material with galena, argentite and minor copper sulphides occurring as irregularly shaped clusters and stringers. Dolomitic argillite of the Kitchener Formation is also indicated. Often interbedded with these quartzites are thin beds of talcose schist.

Mineralization present at the Tit for Tat occurrence is thought to be related to Ford Vein (Lily May Extension) mineralization (082GNW011).

In 1982, a 1-metre sample (4964) across a vein returned 2.9 grams per tonne gold, 20.5 grams per tonne silver, and 1.3 per cent lead (Assessment Report 10732).

WORK HISTORY

The Rose, Lily May, and Tit for Tat claims were staked to cover historical Crown grants originally registered in April 1898 under the names Tit for Tat (L.6202), Lentz Lode (L.6203), and Celt (L.6205). Development work undertaken in 1898 included driving four small, inclined shafts (approximately 13 metres in length) and four blast trenches on a 0.25 to 1-metre-wide 45-degree dipping quartz vein structure. The property saw no documented work until 1982 when Albury Resources undertook a mapping and prospecting program that concluded the property had “good economic potential” (Assessment Report 10732).

SCC Resources Ltd. of Calgary spent two days in the summer of 1991 examining and sampling existing workings. Their results confirmed the economic potential of the earlier reports (Assessment Report 32287).

In 1994, the property was optioned to Wildhorse Resources and a two-hole BQ diamond drilling program was carried out. The 1994 program was the first attempt at tracing vein mineralization on the property to depth. The Tit for Tat claims contain a well-mineralized high-grade gold-bearing structure. This structure, though well exposed over 140 metres on surface, showed no subsurface continuity, unless it had been fault offset at depth (Assessment Report 24513).

No further work was conducted on the property until 2003, when Eagle Plains Resources acquired 100 per cent title to an eight-unit claim block in the Wildhorse River area that covers the Tit for Tat gold occurrence (Eagle Plains Resources, News Release, January 16, 2003).

In 2004, Eagle Plains Resources conducted an airborne geophysical survey. Due to disappointing results, the property was dropped (Assessment Report 27934).

In 2012, Turnberry Resources Ltd. conducted a program on their Wildhorse Claim consisting of 555.4 metres of NQ2-size diamond drilling (on the Dardanelles) along with geological mapping and a geochemical sampling program resulting in the collection of 16 rock samples and 303 soil samples near the three mineral occurrences on the claim. The claims covered the Dardanelle (082GNW019), Lily May (Tit for Tat) (082GNW020), and Copper Creek (082GNW102) occurrences (Assessment Report 34199). Geochemical surveys identified some new prospective targets, two gold anomalies, one possibly structurally controlled, and mineralization hosted in the mafic intrusive sill on the property. The highest gold value in soil returned 193 parts per billion (sample WHL009) taken from directly beside a creek draining from the Dardanelles zone. Two days were spent during the program working on the understanding of the Copper Creek showing with the base of the overlying Kitchener Formation being successfully mapped out and followed along strike. This is reported to be the horizon that is stratigraphically equivalent to the Spar Lake horizon at the Spar Lake mine in Montana.

Refer to Bird Dog (082GNW098), Lily May Ext. (082GNW011), Dardanelle (082GNW019), and Copper Creek (082GNW102) for related geological and work history.